How do you audit data usage in your BI systems?

Define Your goals:


• It is important to define what you wish to achieve and how you will measure it.
• Common goals like detecting & preventing unauthorized access to sensitive data,
• ensuring compliance with data protection regulations & policies, optimizing data,
• identifying data patterns & trends, and improving data governance & accountability.

Choose tools :


• Evaluate based on Built-in auditing features of your BI platforms or databases,
• such as logs, reports or dashboards, are one option the existing infrastructure.
• Third-party auditing software or services that integrate with your BI systems
• may offer more advanced functionality and customization.

Collect data:


• Ensure to collect data on how data is used in your BI systems. This includes
• who is accessing, modifying, or sharing data, what data sources, tables,
• columns, or fields are used,how the data is accessed, modified, or shared
• through queries.eports, dashboards, or APIs, where the data is accessed,
• modified, or shared through devices, locations, or networks.

Review results :


• To review and analyze the data you have collected and compare it with your goals.
• For that look for anomalies, errors, inconsistencies, risks, threats, vulnerabilities,
• opportunities, insights, captured, stored& whether it serves the organization's needs.
• tools are required to better utilize this data.